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This is so important because the framing has shifted as RFK Jr tries to make the death of children from a preventable disease seem normal, when normal was very recently (before anti-vax creeps like rfk jr) ZERO children dying of measles. Because vaccination was normal.

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The resegregation continues uncontested.

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Hey folks, I hesitate to make posts like this because EroticEffect exists to make fun toys, but here's a bit of a depressing peek behind the curtain of running a dildo business right now: The impacts of economic "policy" of the current US administration started hitting us last month.

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Liberals really loving the phrase “malicious compliance” right now, but let me introduce you to its older and more effective sister “civil disobedience.”

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My birthday again in war❤️… I’m not asking for gifts or celebrations, just for your support. Every share,retweet, and quote can help us. your support brings us joy despite all the pain. Help me spread my voice and the voice of others💔 chuffed.org/project/1301...

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Hello #WebcomicDay! We just started a new chapter lately, so it's great time to catch up! In the mean time we've had arguments, shifty mediums, and discussions about fragile membranes between universes!

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Genuinely would be cool if 90% of major press outlets weren’t owned by actual shitbag billionaires dead set on yanking society backwards so they can hold onto the obscene wealth they literally can’t live long enough to spend

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Stop. Calling. It. A. Medicaid. Work. Requirement.

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FEMA will stop knocking on doors to provide aid to disaster survivors, per a memo obtained by WIRED this week. It comes as the agency is shifting responsibility for recovery efforts to local authorities. Oh, and it's hurricane preparedness week, btw.

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Porn is art, porn is free speech, porn is important to a healthy society, a society without porn is a society that wants me dead.

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new from me for @wired.com : the EPA is moving to reorganize its scientific research office, which will likely kill off a small but crucial program devoted to studying the impacts of toxic chemicals—which has been a target of industry groups for years

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Happy #Webcomicday ! If you like adult webcomics with queer main cast, complex emotions and trauma responses, monsters, monsterhunters, and monsters hunting monsters, then #HollowHeart is waiting for you! 🐺🔥 TAPAS: tapas.io/series/Hollo... WEBTOON: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ho...

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Happy #WebcomicDay! I’m Lio I make a comic called ‘Horizon Walkers’ (+15) an LGBT Fantasy comic about people who can sometimes have the heads of animals and finding family in that. 🌱 www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ho... 🌿 tapas.io/series/Horiz...

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The thing is, rich white dudes are ALWAYS gonna have access to porn, and sex workers foe that matter. Legal or not. These laws won't apply to them. The goal of these laws is to punish the people they get off to, force them underground, and make it easier to exploit them.

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The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

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Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!

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I've seen a lot of posts incorrectly say you have to call your reps about the SCREEN Act. while the Screen Act is definitely worth calling about, that is not what is being brought before the Senate on thursday What you need to call your reps about is the "S.5260 Interstate Obscenity Definition Act"

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🌼Howdy, howdy🌼 It’s that time y’all, I’m opening up commissions. I’m in a kind of scarily tight place financially as I’m at home taking care of my mom through her dementia. I have a lot of debt growing, but I gotta be here for her. SO, here we are, commissions! (C)

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gotta be honest ICE needs to be disbanded immediately

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Right now U.S. Republicans in Congress are jammed up a) the protests are working to make the most vulnerable nervous (keep calling and protesting) b) they DO NOT want their constituents to realize they are set to cut $880 B from Medicaid and MORE c) they are at odds with each other Push Hard Now

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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says.

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Remember:

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World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

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"[Detainees are] immediately funnelled into arbitrary detention and systematically subjected to torture, sexual violence, forced labour and other exploitation with total impunity ... The entire network of Libyan migration detention centres is rotten to its core and must be dismantled."

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1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

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Los Angeles, is this good??? Karen Bass is giving half of our budget to LAPD, while the city has to pay out hundreds of millions in civil liability payouts annually for LAPD violence & misconduct. The police are literally defunding the city.

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I need to see cis gays getting real loud about things like this, including being willing to take losses instead of throwing us to the wolves. Trans people and especially trans women have carried this community on their backs for decades, you can do your part now.

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NEW: Thousands protested when NYU Langone Hospital cut off healthcare for trans youth. Now, State Senator Kristen Gonzalez says the hospital has assured her they will resume treatment for children who'd been cut off from care. Big win for protesting and organizing. Full story on Assigned Media:

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A great video on pencils that also included some alcohol markers in the mix. Not only are markers not light fast, they are VERY not light fast.

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If you see this, post a sword. ⚔️

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having a big "i was born" sale today...! and also more days, until sunday at 11:59pm EST itch.io/s/152088/bir...

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I'm rezzing the Planettes art series! Planettes was/is a series of 13 ladies designed off real planet facts, with one for each planet + Pluto, the Sun, Earth's moon, and Milky Way. First up is Mars! Fun fact: Mars has two wobbly lil moons that were probably captured asteroids

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Karlach strong back

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Yeah this is a wild opportunity u dont want to miss out on, nero is one of the best ppl i can think of to give advice on adult art!

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Abolish ICE It was absolutely the right call 7 years ago, and more so now, with nightly reports of violent raids gone awry, strip-searching tourists, and snatching student op-ed writers How America created a secret police, and how to get rid of it. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

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If we can make more regular people aware that "the machine that can't stop getting things wrong is going to raise your power bill whether you use it or not", I think we can get more people to reject generative AI. People in Baltimore are already sick of BGE rate hikes as it is.

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The thing with Pedro Pascal is he not only gives a fuck; he knows he's huge enough to spend all day trashing bigots safely because entire franchises are built around him atm. He's no dispensable Gina Carano-tier secondary guy. This also underlines how most famous artists as big as him are cowards.

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I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older (pre-21st century) LGBT science fiction book I've managed to track down - currently just over 200 titles 🚀 LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF

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it's independent bookstore day! and incidentally amazon has put on a book sale the same day, because they're undercutting scum! don't give them your money! support you local bookstore in person or use bookshop.org! maybe even buy My book! it's good! bookshop.org/p/books/hung...

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